Members - Past Officers

This page lists all of LUGOD's previous elected officers
(root, sys, typescript and /dev/null), for posterity.
(Our current elected and appointed officers are listed on
the officers page.)

LUGOD was founded in January 1999 by Pete Salzman
(see his call for formation
from December 1998), with help from others in the Davis community.
Our Bylaws and Constitution were ratified in August 1999. We received
501(c)7 non-profit status in March 2000.

Note: This page was first created nearly 6 years after LUGOD was formed!
Did we forget anyone or get any details wrong? If so, please contact the
webmaster!

Also, this page currently focuses on elected officers. We may add
appointed positions as well, though that was not kept track of in nearly
as much detail as elected positions...

Rhonda Salzman (Bailey) - /dev/null

Rhonda was LUGOD's second /dev/null and graduated summa cum laude with a
B.S. in electrical engineering from UC Davis. She is now living in
New Jersey pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Princeton
University. She started out with SuSE, but now uses Debian GNU/Linux with
the Enlightenment window manager.

As of December 2004 - Rhonda now lives in New Jersey.

Ken Bloom - typescript

Ken has been a LUGOD member since December 2002.

As of December 2004 - ...

Ryan Castellucci - sys

Ryan Castellucci has been a LUGOD member since August 2001.

As of November 2014 - ...

Greg FitzGerald - /dev/null

Greg was a LUGOD member from December 2008, and joined on as treasurer
(/dev/null) the following year.
As of November 2014 - Greg lives in southern California.

Melissa Hardenbrook - typescript

Melissa Hardenbrook was LUGOD's first secretary. She helped set up meetings and
greet newcomers. She graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor's
degree in Linguistics. She runs Debian on her desktop and laptop.

As of November 2014 - Melissa lives in Davis, California.

Stephen Matthew Helms - typescript

(Interesting bio goes here.)

As of December 2004 - Stephen Matthew Helms lives in Sacramento and
works for Apple.

Henry has been maintainer of LUGOD's free lending library
and coordinator for LERT and hands-on demos. He has given a number of
presentations at LUGOD on topics ranging from encryption and
privacy, to using Linux on Apple Macintosh hardware.

As of November 2004 - Henry lives near Davis and works
for Smashwords, Inc. He is also
highly involved in both his family's farm,
Coco Ranch, and his
their agricultural consulting business,
House Agricultural.

Dmitriy Ivanov, sys

(Interesting bio goes here.)

As of November 2014 - Dmitriy lives in San Francisco and
works as a developer for Smashwords, Inc.

Bill is a co-founder of the Linux Users' Group of Davis, and
has held both "root" and "sys" officer positions, as well as webmaster,
librarian and public relations appointed positions.

As of November 2014 - Bill lives in Davis and is the CTO of
Smashwords, Inc. He spends is free time creating
Open Source games for Linux.

Brian Lavender - sys

Brian was also founder of SacLUG.

As of November 2014 - Brian lives in Sacramento.

Daphne Pareas - typescript

As of November 2014 - Daphne Pareas lives in Davis
and works form Smashwords, Inc.

Jennifer Rutherford - typescript

Jennifer acted as LUGOD's secretary.

As of December 2004 - (Current status goes here)

Pete Salzman - root, sys, LERT dispatcher,
Installfest Coordinator

Pete Salzman is the founder of LUGOD. He
formed the club
by calling its first meeting after becoming
frustrated with the lack of activity in UCD's existing Open Source club.

Peter's contributions to the club have included: founder, seeding the first
committees within LUGOD, inception of LUGOD's monthly Installfest workshops,
creation of LUGOD's 'Linux Emergency Response Team', drafting of LUGOD's
constitution and bylaws, and helping to get LUGOD's non-profit status.

As of December 2005 -
Peter graduated UC Davis with a Ph.D. in
theoretical physics and is now living in New Jersey.

Nick Schmalenberger - typescript

Nick joined LUGOD in October 2002. (Interesting bio goes here.)

As of December 2005 - (Current status goes here)

Mike Simons - root, sys

Mike spent most of his childhood in Northern Virginia. Fall of 1992
after about 30 install attempts managed to install Slackware on a
386 25-DX, with 8 megs of RAM and 80 Megs of disk space. Over the
next few months he became very skilled re-installing as bad command
or system bug after another wiped out the system. The highlight of that
system was kernel compiles took about 20 hours and were left to run
overnight.

As of November 2014 - Mike currently lives in Davis and
works for Oracle.

Jonathan Stickel - root, Installfest Coordinator

Jonathan Stickel is currently a Chemical Engineering graduate student
at UC Davis. He is studying the flow of complex fluids by means of computer
simulations.

Jonathan gradually started using Linux because of the tools available
for writing LaTeX documents. He now uses Linux for all his computing
needs, from C++ programming to computer gaming. Jonathan started with
RedHat due to the ease of installation. He has recently switched to
Gentoo because of it's ease of use (post-installation).

Emily Stumpf, root, typescript

Emily Stumpf is a UCD graduate in computer science. She has been a LUGOD
member since October 1999.